Harry feder



(Model.) H. FEDER.

SKIRT PROTECTOR. No. 553.707. Patented Jan. 28, 1896.

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AN DREW B.GHAMAM. PHOYO-LITMQWASHINGTDMVC,

UNITED STATES IIARRY FEDER, OF

PATENT OFFICE.

NEW YORK, N. Y.

SKI RT-PROTECTO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 553,707', dated January 28, 1896. Application iiled November 26, 1895. Serial No. 570,154. (Model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY FEDER, of the city and county of New York, in the State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Skirt-Protectors, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in skirt-protectors in which there is provided a brush edge at the bottom to receive the wear from the ground or iioor along which the skirt is dragged.

A practical embodiment of my invention is represented in the accompanying` drawings, in which- Figure l shows a piece of the protector in side elevation. Fig. 2 is a view in cross-section. Fig. 3 represents in detail two of the threads which form the brush. Fig. 4 represents in side elevation the position which the protector occupies with respect to the garment which it is intended to protect, and Fig. 5 is a view of the same in transverse section.

The brush which is intended to take the wear preferably consists of the following parts: A series of bunches of weft-threads (represented by A) folded over until their op-` posite ends extend substantially in the same direction or slightly diverge, as shown in Fig. 3, where a single thread is represented by d and a series of bunches of shorter weft-threads folded in like manner and represented by a', Fig. 3, are arranged alternately with their free ends in substantially the same plane and are held in position by the interwoven warpthreads B, the weaving extending from the bights of the folds of the threads a down to a point intermediate of the bight of the shorter fold a and the free ends of the bunches of the fold. This firmly locks the bunches of folded weft-threads together and the introduction of the shorter bunches materially thickens the brush so that when completed it has an eifect of a dress-braidl with a heavy brush along one of its edges. In applying this to the garment to be protected the weft portion is applied to the face of the skirt at its lower edge in the manner shown in Figs. 4 and 5, where the skirt is represented by C and the braided portion of the protector when taken as a whole by D.

The brush form of protector has the advantage of yielding to slight unevenness in the surface over which the garment is dragged, so that the grinding motion due to the frictional contact is reduced to a minimum and it also yields so freely under the pressure of contact that it eectually wraps itself under and around the lower edge of the skirt, preventing the latter from touching the ground or floor under any circumstances, and so forming an effective and at the same time a very sightly protector.

Vhat I claim is- A skirt-protector consisting of a fabric composed of a plurality of series of folded bunches of threads forming the weft of the fabric and having the bights of the folds of one series farther from the edge of the fabric than the bights of the folds of another series from that same edge, and warp-threads interwoven with the said folded bunches leaving the free ends of the bunches extended beyond the edge of the fabric to form a brush, substantially as set forth.

HARRY FEDER.

Witnesses:

FR'EDK. HAYNES, GEORGE BARRY, Jr. 

